Disposition control as VMI article or preview article

For each article, the buyer or MRP controller can decide whether the vendor is to receive only an overview of the planning data for this material as a forecast for his own production planning or whether the vendor is to assume responsibility for replenishment planning.

By selecting it as a “VMI article”, the supplier is given the option of creating corresponding order proposals from the planned receipts in the planning table (see Creation of Order Proposals by the Supplier).

With the selection as “preview article” the supplier gets the complete overview on the planning table, but has no possibility to create an order proposal independently.

This selection should be made initially for each article marked “NEW” and imported for the first time. The selection is preset as “VMI article” by the system during the first import.